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Markku Sippola

Markku Sippola
markku.sippola@uef.fi

Postdoctoral Researcher,
Karelian Institute,
University of Eastern Finland

Content by Markku Sippola

The revival of Belkomur – a chance for the Barents Link?

The BarentsObserver reported on 27 of November that the state-owned China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) will join the de

December 04, 2012

Nordic companies as foreign agents

August 01, 2012

Finland joins eastern bloc of energy supply

Nuclear power has recently been in headlines in Russia.

February 21, 2012

Prospects of passenger traffic and energy supply in the North-West Russia

The Petrozavodsk plane crash on June 20th, 2011, has shocked the town of Petrozavodsk and the whole Republic of Karelia.

June 24, 2011
Facebook gets hydro power for datacenter

Facebook has signed a five-year agreement with the energy producer Vattenfall AB on renewable electricity for its computer center in Luleå in Northern Sweden.

June 17, 2013 Comments
Oil ministers shuttle between Russia-Norway

For the second time in one week, the Russian Minister of Natural Resources was in Norway to discuss developments in the Barents Sea

June 13, 2013 Comments
Northern fleet to sail southern waters

For the first time since the collapse of the USSR, ballistic missile submarines from Russia’s Kola Peninsula will next year patrol oceans on the southern hemisphere. And Murmansk-based aircraft-carrier Admiral Kuznetsov will by year-end sail to the Mediterranean.

June 02, 2013 Comments
Russia sends Coast Guard vessel to Svalbard

A Russian Coast Guard vessel with fisheries inspectors will be patrolling waters off Svalbard this summer.

May 30, 2013 Comments
Mayor lays charges against Norilsk-Nickel on pollution-crime

KIRKENES: Russia’s metal-giant in Nikel is notoriously violating the maximum allowed limits for air quality on the Norwegian side of the border. Sør-Varanger Mayor Cecilie Hansen says enough is enough and files charges.

June 17, 2013 Comments Nickel industry on the Kola Peninsula
What the Black-Legged Kittiwake can teach us about mercury

A study showing that high levels of mercury might prevent a Svalbard bird from breeding could have rippling implications for other large mammals, including humans, that live in the mercury-rich Arctic.

June 17, 2013 Comments Sea birds of the Barents Sea
Rich Opportunity, Poor Cross-Border Communication

HAPARANDA: Despite hailing from four countries the young business owners voiced a single opinion during the Barents Reunion: The North is rich with opportunity but needs to think globally to support fledgling businesses, say Young Barents Entrepreneurs

June 15, 2013 Comments
Russian Entrepreneurs go Barents

HAPARANDA: The 2013 Barents Reunion in Haparanda, Sweden attracted more than 70 Russian entrepreneurs, an enormous increase over 2012 when no Russian entrepreneurs were present.

June 13, 2013 Comments Has gallery images
New research vessel will be called «Kronprins Haakon»

Norway’s first ice-classed research vessel will be named after the country’s Crown Prince Haakon. The name was chosen through a contest on public radio.

June 07, 2013 Comments
China boosts Arctic research

China plans to establish a China-Nordic Arctic Research Center in Shanghai in partnership with a number of research institutes in the Nordic countries.

June 07, 2013 Comments
Arctic garbage turns piece of art

ARKHANGELSK: Employees from the National Park «Russian Arctic» found an unusual and interesting way of using rusty fuel barrels brought from the Arctic islands.

June 14, 2013 Comments
Amundsen's ship to be towed home

More than 80 years she sank off the northern coast of Canada, a ship designed and sailed by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen will start its journey home next year.

June 05, 2013 Comments
Prime Ministers' border-crossing exercise

STORSKOG: Dmitri Medvedev and Jens Stoltenberg concluded the Barents Summit with a relaxed walk over the joint Norwegian, Russian border after getting their own visa-free ID-cards.

June 04, 2013 Comments Medvedev, Stoltenberg at joint border Medvedev and Stoltenberg at Storskog
Medvedev proposes Barents visa-free travel

KIRKENES. The Russian prime minister wants to see new joint projects within the field of industry and transportation and proposes the introduction of Barents regional visa-free traveling.

June 04, 2013 Comments
Dmitry freed from jail

Indigenous Peoples activist Dmitry Berezhkov is a free man after a court decision in Northern Norway on Saturday says the conditions for extradition to Russia is not present.

June 15, 2013 Comments
Dmitry Berezhkov arrested by Norwegian police

Indigenous Peoples activists arrested in Tromsø after petition from Russian police.

June 14, 2013 Comments
Police Academy cadets in strip-bar trouble

Three cadets from the Norwegian Police University College claim they were assaulted and robbed on their way out after a late evening at the striptease bar XXXX in Murmansk. Local law enforcement sources tells another story.

June 06, 2013 Comments
Medvedev honored Red Army liberators

Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg today laid down wreaths at the memorial to the Red Army soldier in Kirkenes.

June 04, 2013 Comments Has gallery images